{"thread":{"id":"38833","subject":"FW: Time Date on file","startedAt":"2015-03-17T17:19:07Z","lastAt":"2015-03-17T18:15:45Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Patrice Monette","Dennis Kaarsemaker"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"257871","messageId":"000f01d060d6$79c2c5e0$6d4851a0$@steltec.ca","threadId":"38833","inReplyTo":"discussions/7a29a8f6b60c11e49e9dc65939c25d64/comments/1711928@github.com","subject":"FW: Time Date on file","fromName":"Patrice Monette","fromEmail":"networkadmin@steltec.ca","sentAt":"2015-03-17T17:19:07Z","receivedAt":"2015-03-17T17:19:07Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"networkadmin@steltec.ca","avatar":null},"body":"I have address the following question to github support and the refer me to git documentation but I`m not too familiar with Git right now.  Here`s my question:\n\nI did not find any config, but is there one configuration somewhere to preserve the real date creation by author somewhere?\n\nThanks in advance,\n\nPatrice Monette\nIT / Programmer ;  TI / Programmeur\n\nE-mail:   patrice@steltec.ca\nPhone:   450-971-5995    Ext: 2221\nFax:   450-971-1865    \n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: James Dennes (GitHub Staff) [mailto:support@github.com] \nSent: February-16-15 4:46 PM\nTo: Patrice Monette\nSubject: Re: Time Date on file\n\nHi there,\n\n> I did not find any config, but is there one configuration somewhere to preserve the real date creation by author somewhere?\n\nNot that I'm aware of, however this would be something specific to Git, not just GitHub. You'd need to check the Git documentation.\n\nThanks,\nJames\n"},{"id":"257873","messageId":"1426616145.6581.3.camel@kaarsemaker.net","threadId":"38833","inReplyTo":"000f01d060d6$79c2c5e0$6d4851a0$@steltec.ca","subject":"Re: FW: Time Date on file","fromName":"Dennis Kaarsemaker","fromEmail":"dennis@kaarsemaker.net","sentAt":"2015-03-17T18:15:45Z","receivedAt":"2015-03-17T18:15:45Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"dennis@kaarsemaker.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/200649?v=4"},"body":"On di, 2015-03-17 at 13:19 -0400, Patrice Monette wrote:\n> \n> I did not find any config, but is there one configuration somewhere to\n> preserve the real date creation by author somewhere?\n\nNo, there is no such configuration as git does not track timestamps of\nfiles.\n-- \nDennis Kaarsemaker\nwww.kaarsemaker.net\n"}]}